Geraldine Crisci, M.S.W.
Geraldine Crisci holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Connecticut. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of child sexual abuse and has developed protocols for trauma assessment, and the assessment of sexualized behaviour in children. She provides clinical consultation to a variety of sexual abuse treatment programs, children's mental health centres and treatment residences.
She developed and taught the Investigative Interviewing with Preschool Children as a 2-day course for the C.O. Bick Police College for 10 years, and as a 4-day course for the RCMP since 1996. She was commissioned by the Canadian Consulate to conduct a 5-day Investigation Course for the Trinidad and Tobago Police Forces. She lectures in both the United States and Canada. She is an expert witness in criminal court in the areas of sexual abuse, disclosure process, memory and suggestibility in young children, and investigative interviewing.
Geraldine Crisci has been instrumental in developing the assessment and treatment programs in Trauma Assessment and Sexual Behaviour Assessment of Children Under 12 in many organizations and programs. She continues her consultation work in those programs currently. She is a consultant for High Risk Cases with the Children’s Aid Society.
Geraldine lectures regularly at both National and International Conferences on Maltreatment and Trauma. Geraldine is a founding member of the Association of Sexual Abuse Prevention and has served as one of 24 consultants to the U.S. Federal Government on issues of sexual abuse treatment and prevention. She co-authored the treatment manual "Paper Dolls and Paper Airplanes: Therapeutic Exercises for Sexually Traumatized Children", which is in its 5th printing. Geraldine has been listed as an Honored Professional in the National Register's Who's Who in Executives and Professionals.